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DCH Coronavirus Update 10-20-20

DCH Coronavirus Update 10-20-20

October 20, 2020

Testing and Confirmed Cases

To protect patient privacy, DCH has established a minimum threshold of five for reporting numbers of inpatients with laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19.

DCH internal counts as of 3:21 p.m. on 10/20/20:

  • 54 inpatients are being treated for COVID-19.
  • 12 inpatients who are positive for COVID-19 are being treated in the ICU.
  • Five or fewer who are positive for COVID-19 are on ventilators.
  • 6 who are positive for COVID-19 are on a BiPAP.
  • 3,587 (cumulative) unique positives for COVID-19 tests including results from the ED, triage tent and inpatient. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
  • 24,448 (cumulative) unique negatives for COVID-19 at DCH sites.
  • 4,589 (cumulative) positive COVID-19 at DCH sites. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
  • 37,668 (cumulative) negative tests at DCH sites.
  • 1,127 inpatients (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have been discharged.